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06/03/2022

YOU’RE THE GHOST

There’s a part of the grieving process,
where your soul kind of leaves your body too.
As though it’s off searching for the one you lost,
somewhere in the ether.

You walk around,
doing all the right things,
putting one foot in front of the other,
living,
but it’s really as though you’re the ghost.

Perhaps you are.
Perhaps your soul searches,
until you find the one you miss,
and they tell you to go back and live.

So, when that numbness passes brave one,
maybe it’s time to do what you are told,
go back and live,
twice as hard.

You don’t belong there in the ether,
nor do you need to search for the one you lost,
they find you.
And when they do, you’ll feel it.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘I Wish I knew’
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Art by Amanda Cass

I Wish I Knew: Poems to Soothe Your Soul & Strengthen Your Spirit

05/08/2022

Women who've lost children or been unable to conceive, I'm holding you in mind. Trans women longing for biological ability to carry a pregnancy I'm holding you in mind. People whose mother has graduated to the next chapter of being, death, I'm holding you in mind. Mother's day is complicated for many.